Where does Heye International Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heye International Gmbh ranks #21,225 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Heye International Gmbh hold?

Heye International Gmbh holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Heye International Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Heye International Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (top 55% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Heye International Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heye International Gmbh's recent grant velocity is -56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Heye International Gmbh's patents?

Heye International Gmbh's patents average 16.7 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Heye International Gmbh patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Heye International Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Heye International Gmbh focus on?

Heye International Gmbh's top technology area is C03B (MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: C03B (MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heye ranks #21,225 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#21,225
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 55%
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21225 · Foreign Corporation #21,225 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,225/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Harvey Water Softeners
CPC-FOCUS C03B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harvey Water Softeners Limited (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heye International · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Heye's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (top 55% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Where Heye's grants concentrate

Heye International Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 92.3% of grants classified under C03B (MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Heye sits between Harvey Water Softeners Limited and Hirevue, Inc..

Harvey Water Soft…

13
Healthpartners Re…

13
Helperby Therapeu…

13
Hesai Photonics T…

13
Hiti Digital

13
Highland Industri…

13
Highview Enterpri…

13
Hirevue

13
Heye International ◀

13

What this shows Heye holds 13 patents at rank #21,232, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heye

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,232 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C03B (Manufacture)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Heye's primary technology class.

Heye's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

34 Top 55% higher than 45% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Heye International Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	3	23.1%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	2	15.4%
2022	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Heye International Gmbh patent most?

C03B - MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES 12

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 2

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

F16H - GEARING 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 1

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 1

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,225

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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